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Quidditch looking for a new name "to distance themselves" from JKR

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FannyCann · 19/12/2021 06:48

Also there is the small matter that the name is trademarked be Warner brothers.

But who knew? I certainly had no idea there were to US Quidditch leagues running around with broomsticks between there legs!

Quidditch leagues changing name of sport
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TimTeleporter · 20/12/2021 10:45

This full-contact mixed-sex game is more dangerous for women, who are at greater risk of concussion

Wow. If I was JK I would want them to change the name to something else. This is JKs whole point isn't it. Womens safety. And a game has been created from her fantasy book, made into a bizarre reality, and women are getting injured as a result of it. You couldn't make this shit up.

ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2021 10:43

@Fenlandia

This full-contact mixed-sex game is more dangerous for women, who are at greater risk of concussion:

www.npr.org/2019/04/13/708111436/for-some-quidditch-players-the-magic-wears-off-as-injury-risks-grow-clearer?t=1639838051775&t=1639844964581&t=1639995209084

"Another topic of debate is the co-ed nature of the game and whether it's safe for differently gendered people to be tackling one another — not only because players don't wear protective padding, but also because of the size differences between players."

'Differently gendered people', FFS

They probably didn't realise that the obvious prerequisite for mixed sex contact sports is an infirmary run by a witch who can cure broken bones by magic.
Kanaloa · 20/12/2021 10:42

@ArblemarzipanTFruitcake

I'm not clear what they do about the golden snitch but either someone is throwing it or they have a battery operated "flying" ball thingy with wings.

I was curious enough to look this up and apparently it's put inside a sock that dangles from a player's shorts. Confused

?????

I genuinely don’t know what to say. So that person acts as the snitch then the seekers chases them and try to grab the crotch sock? Please say it isn’t so.

Kanaloa · 20/12/2021 10:40

@Deadringer

What a pack of thicks.
😂

The simplest and most to the point response really.

Kanaloa · 20/12/2021 10:38

To be honest if I was Rowling I’d want them to distance themselves from me. How embarrassing that firstly you’re pretending to play a magical game from a kid’s book, and secondly that you want to change the name of it to distance yourself from the woman who invented it.

I mean will it still have the same rules? If so what’s the point. I do think some people have too much time on their hands.

AlfonsoTheUnrepentant · 20/12/2021 10:35

If that isn't Freudian I will eat my hat.

Is it a sorting hat?

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 20/12/2021 10:29

Good to see they are using pvc pipe for the broomsticks instead of wood. I would support a move to foam rubber, personally.
The risk assessment is the most interesting thing about this.

Fenlandia · 20/12/2021 10:16

This full-contact mixed-sex game is more dangerous for women, who are at greater risk of concussion:

www.npr.org/2019/04/13/708111436/for-some-quidditch-players-the-magic-wears-off-as-injury-risks-grow-clearer?t=1639838051775&t=1639844964581&t=1639995209084

"Another topic of debate is the co-ed nature of the game and whether it's safe for differently gendered people to be tackling one another — not only because players don't wear protective padding, but also because of the size differences between players."

'Differently gendered people', FFS

JellySaurus · 20/12/2021 10:15

Matt Bateman, president of QuidditchUK, said it fully supported the change. “We cannot continue to call ourselves quidditch and be associated with JK Rowling while she continues to make damaging and hateful comments against the many transgender athletes, staff and volunteers who call this sporting community home,” he said.

Hasn't he just defamed JKR? What a prat.

ScreamingMeMe · 20/12/2021 09:42

Ha ha haaaaaa! If I were JKR, I'd be killing myself laughing at these silly billies.

Another funny tweet:

"You should see their polo team!

They've each got two empty halves of coconut and they're bangin' em together."

twitter.com/jgpetruna/status/1472254420184350721?s=20

GoodieMoomin · 20/12/2021 09:37

What's the collective noun for sad bas#@*!s?

Keke94LND · 20/12/2021 09:07

These are adult people who play quidditch... so I can't give too much time and thought to their opinions lol

PenguindreamsofDraco · 20/12/2021 09:05

This is all just so stupid isn't it. It all kicked off on one of the fanfiction sites I used to like at the weekend because the author doesn't agree with 'the shit that woman says', but it's ok to keep writing the stories for the online ego strokes because the fandom belongs to them not her. The absolute hypocrisy and batshittery of it all.

Moolia · 20/12/2021 09:01

Some good comments in The Times. Hope they change the article as it's a misrepresentation.

QueenSue · 20/12/2021 08:37
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Quidditch looking for a new name "to distance themselves" from JKR
BraveBananaBadge · 20/12/2021 07:31

@zanahoria

At least if they are out playing quidditch they are not writing Harry Potter fanfiction
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ErrolTheDragon · 20/12/2021 05:38

It's covered in the Times today - the reporting is (unusually) a bit off and being rebutted in the comments.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/quidditch-set-to-change-name-in-jk-rowling-trans-row-bmb5k5gwq?shareToken=38619f7b06351fe5e760392b2ebcfe67

Athenajm80 · 20/12/2021 01:25

@Sportsnight Quonopoly? Is that the one where you can identify as owning Park Lane and Mayfair and everyone has to pay you when they land on them, even the person who has both cards as they are clearly misidentifying you which is literal violence

stinkycheeseman · 20/12/2021 01:08

@ArblemarzipanTFruitcake

I'm not clear what they do about the golden snitch but either someone is throwing it or they have a battery operated "flying" ball thingy with wings.

I was curious enough to look this up and apparently it's put inside a sock that dangles from a player's shorts. Confused

If that isn't Freudian I will eat my hat.
BettyFilous · 20/12/2021 00:44

That is not a game in which you’d want to bend over to tie your laces mid-match. I can’t imagine anyone’s bothered to do a proper risk assessment and I’d love to know how many players end up in A&E. They’re dafter than the LARPers with wooden swords and LOTR robes that we see regularly in our local woods.

MiladyBerserko · 20/12/2021 00:31

Bunch Of Fannies

MrsTerryPratchett · 20/12/2021 00:16

How many crotch accidents are we having here?!!

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elgreco · 20/12/2021 00:09

What happens if they run into each other with those brush handles between their legs? It must hurt.

zanahoria · 19/12/2021 23:27

At least if they are out playing quidditch they are not writing Harry Potter fanfiction

Deadringer · 19/12/2021 22:14

What a pack of thicks.